Fred Wolfe ([email protected]) asked about the error
number reported by -tabulate, exact- when it ran out of memory:
> I apparently ran out of memory using tabulate, exact.
>
> Stata reported:
>
> r(910);
>
> ...
> The error message associated with 910 is:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> search for
> r(910)
> (manual: [R] search)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Keywords: r(910)
> Search: (1) Official help files, FAQs, Examples, SJs, and STBs
>
>
> Search of official help files, FAQs, Examples, SJs, and STBs
>
> [P] error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Return code 910
> value too small;
> You attempted to change the size of memory, but specified
> values for memory, maximum observations, maximum width, or
> maximum variables that are too small. Stata wants to
> allocate a minimum of 300K.
>
> (end of search)
>
> Unfortunately, the message appears to be wrong as I had allocated 800 mb of
> memory. So perhaps this error message should be changed?
-tabulate, exact- should have reported some more information with
the r(910) return code. Perhaps this was caught by a -quietly-
or -capture- command in Fred's do-file. The additional error
information that should have been displayed when -tabulate, exact-
failed is
exceeded memory limits using exact(#); try again with larger #; see
help tabulate for details
r(910);
Fred may wish to try specifying
tabulate ..., exact(2)
(or some higher number) after reading the description of the -exact()-
option in the help file for -tabulate-. The help file for -tabulate-
incorrectly refers to this error number as 911, or -tabulate-
incorrectly returns 910 rather than 911; we will fix that
inconsistency in a future update.
If Fred's dataset does not need -set memory 800m- to be loaded and
analyzed, it would be better if he decreased that memory setting.
The reason is that a separate memory allocation is performed by
-tabulate, exact(#)- for its calculations. The more memory allocated
by -set memory-, the less memory available for -tabulate, exact(#)-.
If Fred has enough total memory on his system, of course, this will
not be an isssue.
Alan
([email protected])
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